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KUALA LUMPUR, 15 JULY: Daily Covid-19 instances in Malaysia are expected to drop to 1,000 by October if the government can deliver 150,000 second doses every day, according to Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Dr. Noor Hisham, speaking at a press conference today, emphasized the importance of vaccination in preventing the spread of the virus, noting that 3.10 million people in the Klang Valley have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine.
“In the Klang Valley, a total of five million Covid-19 doses will be administered, with the expectation that every adult in the region will receive at least one dose by August 1.
“As we increase vaccination, the number of Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions will decrease,” he said.
As of July 14, 12.65 million Covid-19 vaccine doses had been delivered nationwide, according to the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV), with 8.64 million initial doses and slightly more than 4 million second doses. In terms of percentages, 12.3% of the country’s 32.72 million residents have received both doses, while 26.5 percent have only received the first.
A total of 1.78 million second doses have been provided across the country since July 1.
Mild symptoms account for 96 percent of new cases.
Dr. Noor Hisham also pointed out that of the 13,215 new infections reported today, 8,047 (or 60.9 percent) were Category 1 (weak symptoms) cases.
“Today, 96 percent of Category 1 and 2 (mild symptoms) cases were reported, totaling 12,684 cases. Only 4% of today’s cases were from Category 3 “and five,” he revealed.
Dr. Noor Hisham explained that a person can become infected with the Delta variant in just a few seconds.
“In the past, we learned that a person can become infected from another person by coming into close touch with them for 15 minutes at a distance of less than one metre.
“Now, however, we’ve learned that the Delta variety may infect someone in as little as five seconds and that the virus is airborne,” he said, emphasizing that Malaysia isn’t the only place affected by the virus.
Meanwhile, Dr Chong Chee Kheong, the head of the Health Ministry’s Klang Valley Task Force, said virtual Covid-19 assessment centres (CACs) will be built up to treat asymptomatic patients.
The virtual CACs, he said, will serve patients in categories 1 and 2.
“Without having to be present at a CAC, monitoring will be done virtually. The MySejahtera app would be used to issue a digital home surveillance order (HSO) “he stated
Despite the fact that people infected with HSO would not be handed bracelets, he stated that the sick person must remain at home./n
